Thousands Rally in Hong Kong for Human Rights

By

Isabella Steger in Hong Kong and

Paul Mozur in Taiwan

June 4, 2011

Huge crowds in Hong Kong turned out to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown of June 4, 1989, amid concerns that the human rights situation in China has taken a turn for the worse in the past year.

According to organizers, around 150,000 people attended the gathering at Victoria Park in Hong Kong. Local media reports say Hong Kong police, which have generally given far lower crowd estimates than those of the organizers, put the...